Courts

Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing. For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.

Land Transfers

These land transfers were recorded Aug. 1-15 in the office of Carolyn H. Honeycutt, clerk of the Carroll County Circuit Court, Hillsville:

HILLSVILLE — Christopher Duncan, facing two counts of attempted murder and multiple other charges in the shooting of Marty Lee Hiatt in Cana last year, waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Carroll County General District Court on Friday.

Duncan is facing seven charges in the case, including two charges of attempted murder, one charge of malicious wounding, one charge of malicious shooting into an occupied vehicle and three charges involving the use of a firearm in committing a felony.

SALEM — A former Salem police officer will serve two-and-a-half years in prison for soliciting sexual favors in exchange for the promise of lenient sentences, and planning the acts with a cooperating defendant in Carroll County.

In December 2014, former police detective Kevin Christopher Moore of Roanoke County pleaded guilty to soliciting and receiving sexual favors from a cooperating defendant, in exchange for recommending a more lenient sentence.

Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing. For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.

District Court

These sentences were recorded in July in the Grayson County General District Court Office, Independence. Sentences may be appealed:
Placido Hernandez Bido of Wytheville, guilty of hunt/trap/fish without a license; pay $125 fine and $121 costs.

Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record.
The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.

District Court

These sentences were recorded in July in the Grayson County General District Court Office, Independence. Sentences may be appealed:

HILLSVILLE — Austin Kenneth Rupert Wagg of Galax was sentenced to three years in prison in Carroll County Circuit Court last Thursday.

Wagg was arrested on Aug. 20, 2014, after a witness notified police that Wagg was firing a weapon at a vehicle in the Food City parking lot in Galax. Police followed Wagg’s vehicle and stopped him. A 9 mm pistol was recovered during the stop.

Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record.
The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.

District Court

These sentences were recorded in July in the Carroll County General District Court Office, Hillsville. Sentences may be appealed:

Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record.
The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.

District Court

These sentences were recorded in June in the Galax General District Court Office, Galax. Sentences may be appealed: